Following a dominant victory over Wagner Prado just this past week at UFC 153, Phil Davis has his next assignment.

Davis (10-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) will return in a little more than two months to face Forrest Griffin (19-7 MMA, 10-5 UFC) at the UFC’s year-end card in Las Vegas. UFC officials on Friday announced the new fight booking.

UFC 155 takes place Dec. 29 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena with a main card on pay-per-view. Davis-Griffin is expected to be the card’s co-main event.

Griffin was scheduled to fight Chael Sonnen at UFC 155, but earlier this week, Sonnen was pulled from that fight so he could begin a coaching stint opposite Jon Jones for Season 17 of “The Ultimate Fighter.” The two then will fight for Jones’ 205-pound title in April.

That left Griffin without an opponent, though UFC President Dana White said Wednesday that the promotion had an opponent in mind and was just waiting to get both sides on board before making an announcement. Now, the UFC said, both Davis and Griffin have verbally agreed to the bout.

Speculation about Griffin’s possible opponent had been largely directed at two light heavyweights over the past few days: Stephan Bonnar and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira. But it will be Davis who draws the assignment.

Earlier this week, Nogueira tweeted at White his hope for the fight with Griffin, saying: “I’m 100% and training again. Put me in against @ForrestGriffin on UFC 155! This fight was scheduled once, let’s do it now!” The two were scheduled to meet at UFC 114, but Grififin had to pull out of that 2010 bout with a shoulder injury.

Bonnar, who at UFC 153 was stopped in the first round by middleweight champion Anderson Silva in the non-title fight main event, has been lobbying for a third fight against Griffin for nearly a year. The turnaround time from the Silva fight would have been short, but Bonnar has claimed to not be injured from the fight, which saw him stopped after a knee to the body and several follow-up punches from Silva on the ground.

Davis got back in the win column against Prado in Rio de Janeiro. It was his first victory since a March 2011 win over Nogueira. In the main event of UFC on FOX 2, Davis dropped a unanimous decision to Rashad Evans. He followed that up in August against Prado at UFC on FOX 4, but an accidental eye poke to Prado resulted in a no contest and a two-month delay in them settling up.

Griffin in July beat Tito Ortiz by unanimous decision in the rubber match of their trilogy at UFC 148. Prior to that, he was stopped by Mauricio “Shogun” Rua at UFC 134 in August 2011. But the win over Ortiz gave him three wins in his past four fights.

The fight with Sonnen was to be a rematch from a regional fight the two had in September 2003, which Griffin won with a first-round triangle choke.

UFC 155 features a main event heavyweight title fight between champion Junior Dos Santos and former champ Cain Velasquez.

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